Category: Update
Senate Move To Upgrade Fedpoffa To A Degree Awarding Institution, Bill Passes Second Reading
The Senator representing Kwara South Senatorial District, Senator Oyelola Ashiru, today, at the plenary led the bill for an Act to amend the Federal Universities...
Two-week-old baby dies as parents exchange blows in Ondo
A brawl between a young couple, Ekene and Rose ljokun has led to the untimely death of their two weeks old baby boy in the Akure North council area of Ondo...
Senate proposes 15 years imprisonment for anyone who pays ransom to kidnappers
The Senate on Wednesday considered a bill that seeks to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or...
Governor fires nurses for joining strike
Adamant Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai yesterday raised the number of retrenched workers with the sack of all nurses below Grade Level 14. El-Rufai,...
VC warns public against fake recruitment advert by FUOYE
Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Abayomi Fasina, on Wednesday, advised members of the public to disregard announcement on...
4th Mainland Bridge to gulp $2.5bn now ― Lagos govt
Lagos State Government has said the construction of the proposed 4th Mainland Bridge is estimated to cost $2.5 billion. Recall that the state...
Two burnt to death in Ekiti road crash
Two persons were reportedly burnt to death, while two others sustained injury on Wednesday in a ghastly motor accident that occurred along the old Ado-Iyin...
22 jailed for trafficking children to cocoa farms in Ivory Coast
Twenty-two people have been jailed for trafficking children to work on Ivory Coast’s lucrative cocoa plantations, police said. Five received jail terms...
EU to reopen borders to fully vaccinated travellers
EU member states agreed Wednesday to reopen the bloc’s borders to travellers who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, European sources...
Hisbah arrests Kano ‘couple’ for allegedly buying baby for N900,000
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested a 40-year-old woman, Salomi Jerome, and her supposed husband, Salomi Igina, for allegedly trafficking a newborn...
Four armed robbers killed in gun battle with police
FOUR suspected armed robbers have been killed in a gun battle with police officers at Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State. ...
BREAKING: Senate suspends plenary for next week
PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has disclosed that the Senate will not meet in plenary throughout next week. Speaking at...
Community monarch flees palace as protest against Agip escalates
The protest of Twon-Brass Community in Bayelsa State, hosts to Agip’s Crude Export Terminal took a twist as the protesters sack the Community monarch...
Joshua Dogonyaro’s coup speech and Muhammadu Buhari’s style
First, a disclaimer to potential blackmailers, opposition (read ‘wailers’) hunters, and would-be mind-readers who read meanings into and impute motives...
UNITY SCHOOLS: NECO reschedules Common Entrance Examination
The National Examinations Council, NECO, has rescheduled the 2021 National Common Entrance Examination, NCEE, into federal unity colleges to Saturday, June...
Suspended Abiodun’s aide faces 30 years in US prison for $350,000 fraud
A Senior Special Assistant to the Ogun State Governor, Abidemi Rufai, faces up to 30 years in prison if he is convicted of wire fraud. According to the...
BREAKING: Two INEC offices set ablaze
Two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ebonyi State have been set ablaze by unidentified persons. The offices are located in...
COVID-19: Buhari seeks debt relief for African countries
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on European countries and global financial institutions to consider reducing the devastating effect of the...
NUPENG threatens nationwide strike over attack on Labour leaders
Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG has threatened a nationwide strike over attack on leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC...
UK’ll deny visas to Nigerians who disrupt 2023 polls — British High Commissioner
BRITISH High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, has said the United Kingdom, UK, would deny visas to Nigerians who disrupt 2023 elections. ...
